so waht ya doin today?

[CWLONGSHOT]

Supposed to be murderious... 98 degrees with HI approaching 110...

Stay outta the sun and hydrated!!! I coupd t do the range cause of it yesterday a d it will
Likely be better then later today!

CW

 

[Rick]

Well, tomorrow will be my last day, after 29+ years at the same dealership. May do some part-time "consulting".
The Boss ordered me a Henry Long Ranger as a gift, 308 Win. Should be a fun rifle.

Hey Steve . . . . It's Saturday . . . .

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Well, tomorrow will be my last day, after 29+ years at the same dealership. May do some part-time "consulting".
The Boss ordered me a Henry Long Ranger as a gift, 308 Win. Should be a fun rifle.

. AWESOME AND CONGRATULATIONS MY FRIEND!!

CW

 

[Ole_270]

Been Saturday for 3 years now. I'm still not used to it, been thinking about going back part time. There's only so much casting and reloading a guy can do before he runs out of room to store it all

 

[Ian]

Been Saturday for 3 years now. I'm still not used to it, been thinking about going back part time. There's only so much casting and reloading a guy can do before he runs out of room to store it all

That just means you haven't been doing enough shooting.

 

[Hawk]

I've been retired for 4 years and still not completely used to it.
You are trained for 60 years that Monday thru Friday are school or work days and Saturday is the day you get your stuff done.
I still get up Saturday thinking I've got to get my chores done on that day, when in reality, that is the one day you don't want to go out, because everyone else is out that day!

 

[popper]

Yup, weekdays get out when everybody else is working or in school - except this year.
Range day, chronied the BO pistol 170 PB loads. 8.5gr = 900, 9.5gr = 1300 SD 36, 10.5gr = 1400 SD 16. Shot some 185gr PB 9.5gr 2400 - M.S. didn't register. What! Hit target a little low but close to bull. 30/30 170 PB 9.5gr unique did fine, MOA @ 50. Hot and HUMID today, I didn't last long.

 

[Winelover]

Been retired since July 2008.........................never missed going to work. Love drawing the company pension, as well as SS.

It's alright to get up early. I worked afternoons for at least half of my 37 years at GM. Not a morning person. However, I get up early, since I retired. Down here in the south........................it gets hotter as the day goes on. Plus, early to bed, early to rise........makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

 

[Ole_270]

Looks like I happened onto parts for the old Mitchel #300 reel. Got an email from Glenn's Reel & Rod Repair out of Des Moines that says if it was made in France, he has a complete spool assy for $11 that while not original will fit. Also a handle. I looked the reel over without finding any markings of where it was made, finally pulled the spool and it said France on the bottom. Guess I might of gotten lucky.

 

[Ole_270]

Got parts in today to refurbish a couple pressure canners. We quite canning garden stuff quite a few years ago when the kids were in college. I've been wanting to try canning some deer meat, lots of posts elsewhere that say they prefer it to frozen. My feeling is that canned would work better if we had electrical outages, we live off the beaten path. Anyway I went looking for the old canners and found her large Presto, then found an older National Pressure Cooker #7 she had picked up at an auction and stored away. Both needed a new set of gaskets and I replaced the pressure gage on the old National. Now to take them to the county ag office and have them pressure tested. We'll keep one and give the other to our son.

 

[Mitty38]

One of my toilets had condensation on the outside. So, Checked my toilets with the food collar test. One that was sweeting had a leaking flapper, and seal which were no longer available.
So bought one of those quick repair kits. The kind that you don't separate the toilet for.
It is loaded with putty on the bottom and you just stick on the old base.
Figure $10 I would take a chance. Just checked it I do believe I just saved myself a ton of work. No more leak.No red food Collering in the bowl. When I did a second test.
Happy happy happy.
Now time to sand on my wife's gunstock

 

[Ole_270]

That beats having to take the whole thing out and replace it. Getting to where I really dislike crawling around working on plumbing.

 

[JonB]

I have 3 of the old National Pressure Cooker #7 ...they are awesome.
I won't go into why I got the first two (both look very old and are pitted, and yet, both function), but I liked them enough, that when I recently stumbled onto the third one that looked minty new, even though it was very old, and it came with a bunch of accessories and the original papers, that I swapped $35 worth of junk for it.

 

[JonB]

OK, it's been 5 weeks since my knee surgery, and the weather has finally cooled off a bit from the HOT HUMID air we've had since before my surgery, which means I haven't done much exercise outside, all the PT done inside in the AC. This morning, I started splitting/stacking the firewood I had brought home in the last few weeks. I didn't get too crazy, just did about 2 partial trailer loads, there looks be 4 or 5 more partial trailer loads to go (I don't like to fill the trailer, as I have to pull it across the lawn with the ATV to the place where I stack it). Anyway, that little bit (3 hours) of exercise in the fresh air and sunshine felt real good.

 

[462]

Plumbing wouldn't try me as much as it does, if I didn't have to:
1. Lay under a sink and try to find whether the top or the bottom of the bifocal lens gives the best focus. Neither do, nor do reading glasses, nor do no glasses, so I work by Braille.
2. Work while on my knees, because getting back up is not as easy as it used to be.

 

[Ole_270]

Sounds like you're getting along better than my wife did. She had her left knee replaced about 2 years ago. As soon as the PT ended she pretty much became a couch potato. Partially due to depression over loosing her Dad, Brother, and Mom in just under a years time. She's lost some range of motion from not working it enough, I've about got her convinced she needs to be working out more to get it back.

 

[462]

Shot another round of Ruger American .223 test rounds, this time with Hornady 55-grain A-Max. CFE223 beat out IMR 4895 and BL-C(2).

Took the "Buffalo Rifle" along, too, with Lyman's 405-grain 457193 and an all-day shooter load Unique. Shot five rounds of 47-grains of Varget and the same bullet, but from the bench it's far from an all-day shooter (close to 1700 fps?). I'll save that load for when the buffalo ever decide to show up.

 

[Mitty38]

Well got the first coat of boiled linseed on me wife's gun stock.Gotvit wiped down. She wants me to paint the stock figured I would get a good linseed finish on it first.

 

[CZ93X62]

I'll save that load for when the buffalo ever decide to show up.

Or the mastodons return. The 45/70 can be a wonderfully-accurate rifle, and in its 1873 power level it could shoot through cavalry mounts. It and the 45 Colt were purpose-designed to do exactly that--the revolver at close ranges, the 45/70 farther out. 90% of my 45/70 shooting gets done at or under 1300 FPS with 350-400 grain castings. I did inherit a couple dozen Remington JSP 405 grain bullets among the debris field formed by that estate sale I'm still working through, and maybe I'll just stuff them into the fired cases I've had sitting around for a few months with 30.0 grains of 4198 under the redcoats and kick up some dirt in the desert with them.

 

[462]

I figure the Unique load is somewhere in the 1200 to 1300 fps range and is non-abusive.

Deep into the days of house arrest, I disassembled and thoroughly cleaned the rifle, and it took 20 shots before groups started shaping up. There's much to be said about not cleaning a cast bullet barrel.